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 |
|---|---|
| lugubrious | mournful |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| dally | to act playfully |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |