GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| vintner | a wine merchant |