GRE Word List
LURK
to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose
The meaning of the word lurk is to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| condole | grieve |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| fell | skin |
| galley | a ship or boat propelled solely or chiefly by oars: such as |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |