GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |