GRE Word List
SLIPSHOD
wearing loose shoes or slippers
The meaning of the word slipshod is wearing loose shoes or slippers.
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 |
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| address | to mark directions for delivery on |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |