GRE Word List
SLACKEN
to make less active : slow up
The meaning of the word slacken is to make less active : slow up.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distant | separated in space : away |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| seemly | good-looking |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |