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 |
|---|---|
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| incantation | a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |