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 |
|---|---|
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| raiment | clothing |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |