GRE Word List
LEERY
suspicious
The meaning of the word leery is suspicious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |