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 |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |