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 |
|---|---|
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| fuddle | booze |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |