GRE Word List
WRY
twist
The meaning of the word wry is twist.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| pilfer | steal |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |