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 |
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| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |