GRE Word List

SLAVISH

of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude

The meaning of the word slavish is of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude.

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clapto strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise
appallto overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay
hydrophobiarabies
fortitudestrength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
wispya small handful (as of hay or straw)
spurnto reject with disdain or contempt : scorn
forensicbelonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate
resurrectto raise from the dead
diabolicalof, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish