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 |
|---|---|
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| countenance | look |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| courier | messenger |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| encompass | include |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |