GRE Word List
SLUICE
an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow
The meaning of the word sluice is an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| garnish | decorate |