GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |