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 |
|---|---|
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| hap | happening |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| pummel | pound |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |