GRE Word List
SCOWL
to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure
The meaning of the word scowl is to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| facade | the front of a building |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |