GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| feint | something feigned |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |