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 |
|---|---|
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| random | a haphazard course |