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 |
|---|---|
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| visage | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| spare | not being used |