GRE Word List
BRAWNY
muscular
The meaning of the word brawny is muscular.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| overwhelm | upset |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |