GRE Word List

CRABBED

marked by a forbidding moroseness

The meaning of the word crabbed is marked by a forbidding moroseness.

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piscatorialpiscatory
projectilea body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia
proverba brief popular epigram or maxim : adage
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presentimenta feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition
pinchto squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument
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spinto draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread
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