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 |
|---|---|
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| 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 |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |