GRE Word List
SLOUGH
a place of deep mud or mire
The meaning of the word slough is a place of deep mud or mire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forte | one's strong point |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |