GRE Word List
LEERY
suspicious
The meaning of the word leery is suspicious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| apiarist | beekeeper |