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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
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| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |