GRE Word List
CRABBED
marked by a forbidding moroseness
The meaning of the word crabbed is marked by a forbidding moroseness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |