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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miasmaa vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease
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insinuateto impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply
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bogwet spongy ground
etymologythe 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
manifoldmarked by diversity or variety
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irretrievablenot retrievable : impossible to regain or recover