GRE Word List
SLEIGHT
deceitful craftiness
The meaning of the word sleight is deceitful craftiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| encumber | weigh down |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |