GRE Word List
SWARTHY
of a dark color, complexion, or cast
The meaning of the word swarthy is of a dark color, complexion, or cast.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| random | a haphazard course |
| glib | showing little forethought or preparation : offhand |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |