GRE Word List
SLUGGARD
a habitually lazy person
The meaning of the word sluggard is a habitually lazy person.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| juncture | a point of time |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| sophist | philosopher |