GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |