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 |
|---|---|
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
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| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| cemetery | a burial ground |