GRE Word List
TOUCHY
marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation
The meaning of the word touchy is marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation.
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contrive | devise |
limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |