GRE Word List
INSIDIOUS
treacherous; stealthy; sly; working or spreading harmfully in a stealthy manner; Ex. insidious spreading of dry rot
The meaning of the word insidious is treacherous; stealthy; sly; working or spreading harmfully in a stealthy manner; Ex. insidious spreading of dry rot.
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scrappy | quarrelsome |
congruent | in agreement; harmonious; corresponding; coinciding exactly; CF. congruous |
glimmer | shine erratically; twinkle; N: dim or unsteady light; faint indication; Ex. glimmer of hope |
boisterous | violent; rough; noisy |
deadlock | standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces; stalemate |
leeway | room to move; margin; latitude; Ex. leeway for the deadline |
plethora | excess; overabundance; Ex. a plethora of excuses |
arbitrate | act as judge (at the request of both sides) |
dawdle | loiter; hang around; waste time doing nothing |
induct | place formally in office; install; admit as a member; initiate; N. induction: inducting; process of deriving general principles from particular facts |