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 |
|---|---|
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |