GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| headfirst | with the head foremost |