GRE Word List
PRY
to look closely or inquisitively
The meaning of the word pry is to look closely or inquisitively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| quench | put out |
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |