GRE Word List
SLIGHT
having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body
The meaning of the word slight is having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |