GRE Word List
WRONGHEADED
stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles
The meaning of the word wrongheaded is stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| shambles | a meat market |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |