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 |
|---|---|
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| concordat | compact |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| portly | dignified |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |