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 |
|---|---|
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| courier | messenger |
| environ | encircle |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| dissension | disagreement |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |