GRE Word List

GLOWER

to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger

The meaning of the word glower is to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger.

Word	Meaning
paradox	one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
pare	to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of
aspersion	a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation
capacity	legal competency (see competence
petrify	to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
assurance	the state of being assured: such as
wake	to be or remain awake
decimate	to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
preponderance	a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength
diminution	the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease