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 |
|---|---|
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |