GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| scotch | scottish |
| spare | not being used |
| predilection | an established preference for something |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |