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 |
|---|---|
| imply | to express indirectly |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |