GRE Word List
UNGAINLY
lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy
The meaning of the word ungainly is lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| dominate | rule |