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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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| congruent | congruous |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |