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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| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| conglomerate | made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds |
| nocturnal | of, relating to, or occurring in the night |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |