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 |
|---|---|
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| arroyo | a watercourse (such as a creek) in an arid region |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| addle | rotten |
| dissension | disagreement |
| 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 |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |