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 |
|---|---|
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |