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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |