GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| concatenate | linked together |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene |
| notable | worthy of note : remarkable |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |