GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| environ | encircle |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| plebiscite | a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler |