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 |
|---|---|
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| demure | reserved |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| trappings | outward signs |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |