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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infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
disport | sport |
antithesis | the direct opposite |
addle | rotten |
prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |