GRE Word List
SLIPSHOD
wearing loose shoes or slippers
The meaning of the word slipshod is wearing loose shoes or slippers.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collate | to compare critically |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| implode | to burst inward |