GRE Word List
WRY
twist
The meaning of the word wry is twist.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |