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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |