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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
