GRE Word List
UNTENABLE
not able to be defended
The meaning of the word untenable is not able to be defended.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |