GRE Word List
WILY
full of wiles : crafty
The meaning of the word wily is full of wiles : crafty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |