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 |
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| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |