GRE Word List

EERIE

so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine

The meaning of the word eerie is so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine.

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WordMeaning
hieroglyphicwritten in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters
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scrappyconsisting of scraps
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perimeterthe boundary of a closed plane figure
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