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 |
|---|---|
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |