GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |