GRE Word List
SLICK
having a smooth surface : slippery
The meaning of the word slick is having a smooth surface : slippery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| mystic | mystical |