GRE Word List
UNCANNY
seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie
The meaning of the word uncanny is seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| contrive | devise |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| defer | put off |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| diadem | crown |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |