GRE Word List
COWER
to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays
The meaning of the word cower is to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| reactionary | relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| jug | a large deep container (as of glass, earthenware, or plastic) with a narrow mouth and a handle |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| 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") |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |