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 |
|---|---|
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| lunar | crescent |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| concentric | having a common center |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |