GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |