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 |
|---|---|
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| calorific | caloric |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |