GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| courier | messenger |
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| auroral | dawn |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |