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 |
|---|---|
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |