GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| prolong | to lengthen in time : continue |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |