GRE Word List
SLOTH
disinclination to action or labor : indolence
The meaning of the word sloth is disinclination to action or labor : indolence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| sibling | sib |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| defer | put off |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| trenchant | keen |