GRE Word List
WRY
twist
The meaning of the word wry is twist.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| groom | bridegroom |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| spate | freshet |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| drab | slattern |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| imply | to express indirectly |