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 |
|---|---|
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |