GRE Word List
MURKY
characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
The meaning of the word murky is characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| remnant | a usually small part, member, or trace remaining |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| tome | book |
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |