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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pore | to gaze intently |
dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |