GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |