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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |