GRE Word List
LEERY
suspicious
The meaning of the word leery is suspicious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| conflagration | fire |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |