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 |
|---|---|
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| 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 |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |