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 |
|---|---|
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| commune | talk over |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |