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 |
|---|---|
| fathom | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.83 meters) used especially for measuring the depth of water |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| determinate | having defined limits |