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 |
|---|---|
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |