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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |