GRE Word List
AWRY
off the correct or expected course : amiss
The meaning of the word awry is off the correct or expected course : amiss.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| terminology | the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |