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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| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| commune | talk over |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |