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 |
|---|---|
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |