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 |
|---|---|
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |