GRE Word List
SURLY
bad-tempered; rude; cross
The meaning of the word surly is bad-tempered; rude; cross.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penology | study of prison management and criminal rehabilitation |
| hothead | person who does things too quickly without thinking; ADJ. hotheaded |
| archaic | antiquated; no longer used; belonging to the past; N. |
| callous | hardened; unfeeling; without sympathy for the sufferings of others; unkind |
| salacious | lascivious; lustful; Ex. salacious monk |
| navigable | (of a body of water) wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; (of a ship or aircraft) able to be steered |
| disjunction | act or state of separation; disunity; CF. disjunctive: expressing a choice between two ideas; CF. conjunction; CF. conjunctive |
| immune | resistant to; free or exempt from; N. immunity |
| hubbub | confused uproar; loud noise; din |
| prolific | producing offspring or fruit in abundance; fertile; fecund; abundantly fruitful; producing abundant works; Ex. prolific writer |