GRE Word List
LEERY
suspicious
The meaning of the word leery is suspicious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| effectual | producing or able to produce a desired effect |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |