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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| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| libido | instinctual 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 |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| fauna | animal life |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |