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 |
|---|---|
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |