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 |
|---|---|
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| groom | bridegroom |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |