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 |
|---|---|
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| sheer | unqualified |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |