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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mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
fabricate | invent |
dyspeptic | indigestion |
blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |