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 |
|---|---|
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |