GRE Word List
SURLY
menacing or threatening in appearance
The meaning of the word surly is menacing or threatening in appearance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |