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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| disaffected | discontented and resentful especially against authority : rebellious |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |