GRE Word List
CLOYING
disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess
The meaning of the word cloying is disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess.
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repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
parched | deprived of natural moisture |
pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
bauble | trinket |