GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| grudging | unwilling |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |