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 |
|---|---|
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| debonair | suave |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| gale | a strong current of air: |