GRE Word List

SLICK

having a smooth surface : slippery

The meaning of the word slick is having a smooth surface : slippery.

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bulgeto jut out : swell
heinoushatefully or shockingly evil : abominable
syllogisma deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable")
deignto condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop
brusquemarkedly short and abrupt
malaproposin an inappropriate or inopportune way
levitateto rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation
coronera usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner
arch-a typically curved structural member spanning an opening and serving as a support (as for the wall or other weight above the opening)
gyroscopea 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