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 |
|---|---|
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |