GRE Word List
WARY
marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger
The meaning of the word wary is marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| quizzical | comically quaint |