GRE Word List
COY
marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness
The meaning of the word coy is marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness.
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| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |