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.
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| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
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| expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
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| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |