GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| slake | subside |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| residual | remainder |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |