GRE Word List

SURLY

menacing or threatening in appearance

The meaning of the word surly is menacing or threatening in appearance.

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empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
resourcefulable to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means
robusthaving or exhibiting strength or vigorous health
lustusually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness
disinterestednot having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged
congruentcongruous
timbrethe quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as
intriguethe practice of engaging in secret schemes
annexto attach as a quality, consequence, or condition
deignto condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop