GRE Word List
SLITHER
to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface
The meaning of the word slither is to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| dull | tedious |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |