GRE Word List
LEERY
suspicious
The meaning of the word leery is suspicious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |