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 |
|---|---|
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |