GRE Word List
SLY
wise in practical affairs
The meaning of the word sly is wise in practical affairs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desperate | having lost hope |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| prattle | prate |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |