GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |