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 |
|---|---|
| microcosm | a little world |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |