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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nutritious | nourishing |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| puerile | juvenile |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |