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 |
|---|---|
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| ossify | to change into bone |