GRE Word List
COUNTENANCE
look
The meaning of the word countenance is look.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| inert | lacking the power to move |