GRE Word List
SLOVENLY
untidy especially in personal appearance
The meaning of the word slovenly is untidy especially in personal appearance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| license | permission to act |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| lunar | crescent |