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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| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| 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 |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |