GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| dire | exciting horror |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |