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 |
|---|---|
| indemnify | to secure against hurt, loss, or damage |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |