GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| dilute | attenuate |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |