GRE Word List

UNTOWARD

difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly

The meaning of the word untoward is difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly.

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demagoguea leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
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caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
euphemismthe substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
transcendentexceeding usual limits : surpassing