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 |
|---|---|
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| savant | a person of learning |
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |