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 |
|---|---|
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| concordat | compact |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |