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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anestheticof, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia
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xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign