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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| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
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| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| stratified | formed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata |
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| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |