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 |
|---|---|
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |