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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| stock | a store or supply accumulated or available |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| dermatologist | a branch of medicine dealing with the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |