GRE Word List
MEALYMOUTHED
not plain and straightforward : devious
The meaning of the word mealymouthed is not plain and straightforward : devious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |