GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |