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 |
|---|---|
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| impuissance | weakness |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |