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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gradation | a series forming successive stages |
proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
quarry | game |
frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
miscreant | unbelieving |