GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| fanfare | a short and lively sounding of trumpets |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| modish | fashionable |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |