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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WordMeaning
vouchto supply supporting evidence or testimony
sinecurean office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income
somaticof, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm
suspendto debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function
casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
secularof or relating to the worldly or temporal
libidoinstinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
dissuadeto advise (a person) against something
irretrievablenot retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
animatedendowed with life or the qualities of life : alive