GRE Word List
WRY
twist
The meaning of the word wry is twist.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| concordat | compact |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| limn | to draw or paint on a surface |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |