GRE Word List
SULTRY
very hot and humid : sweltering
The meaning of the word sultry is very hot and humid : sweltering.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| engender | beget |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| flighty | swift |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |