GRE Word List
SLUICE
artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water (with a gate to regulate the flow)
The meaning of the word sluice is artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water (with a gate to regulate the flow).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| neologism | new or newly coined word or phrase |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| ubiquitous | being everywhere; omnipresent; N. ubiquity |
| precipitate | hurl downward; throw headlong; hasten; cause to happen sooner; condense and fall as rain or snow; cause (a solid substance) to be separated from a solution; ADJ. hasty; rash; premature; sudden |
| gouge | overcharge (with high price); extort from; Ex. gouge the public; CF. usury |
| impregnable | invulnerable; impossible to capture or enter by force; Ex. impregnable fort/argument; CF. take |
| piety | devoutness; reverence for God; ADJ. pious |
| inadvertently | unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly |
| adjacent | adjoining; neighboring; close by |
| trident | three-pronged spear |
