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 |
|---|---|
| impuissance | weakness |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| lewd | obscene |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |