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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|---|---|
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| abscond | to depart secretly and hide oneself |