GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flair | a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something : talent |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| growl | rumble |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |