GRE Word List
SLACK
not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent
The meaning of the word slack is not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |