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adjective
1.
impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
2.
refractory; stubborn.
3.
refusing to go forward; balky: a restive horse.
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Restive
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is repulsive. Does it mean:
| causing repugnance or aversion |
| fall or slip back into a former state, practice |
Example Sentences
- The logic doesn't fly, and it has given rise to an increasingly restive adjunct population.
- Sometimes they are built to keep restive populations from fleeing.
- Gimbel can be found pressed into a restive subway herd, swaying as happily from a strap as though the fares were being.
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Word Origin & History
restive
c.1410, restyffe "not moving forward," from M.Fr. restif (fem. restive) "motionless," from rester "to remain" (see rest (2)). Sense of "unmanageable" (1687) evolved via notion of a horse refusing to go forward.
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