GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| nullify | to make null (see null |