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 |
|---|---|
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| tout | to make much of : promote |