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slope v. 1 incline, decline, ascend, descend, rise, fall, dip, sink,
drop (off), angle, slant, pitch, tilt, tip: The lawn slopes
downwards from the house, then upwards towards that grove of
trees.
--n. 2 incline, decline, ascent, descent, acclivity, declivity,
rise, fall, ramp, dip, sink, drop, angle, slant, pitch, tilt,
rake, tip, camber, cant, grade, bevel, hill, bank, mount,
gradient, US grade, upgrade, downgrade: Sheep can be seen
grazing on the grassy slopes.
sloppy adj. 1 messy, dirty, slovenly, careless, slipshod, untidy,
disordered, disorderly; draggle-tailed, bedraggled, dishevelled,
unkempt, dowdy, frumpish, shabby, scruffy, Colloq US grungy:
She is certainly a sloppy housekeeper. John's teacher complained
about his sloppy work. 2 wet, slushy, watery, soggy, soppy,
sopping, sodden, sloshy, muddy, rainy: The roads were sloppy
after all the rain. You're lucky you don't have to go out in
this sloppy weather. 3 sentimental, gushy, gushing, mawkish,
maudlin, mushy, over-emotional, Colloq slushy, Brit wet, soppy:
She starts to cry whenever she watches a sloppy film on TV.
slot n. 1 groove, fissure, notch, slit, opening, hollow, depression,
channel, sulcus: Each of these pieces fits into its own slot.
Drop a coin in the slot and watch what happens. 2 opening,
position, vacancy, job, place, assignment, niche, space, spot,
pigeon-hole: We filled that slot in the sales department. They
scheduled the new programme into the half-hour slot after the
six o'clock news.
--v. 3 groove, fissure, notch, slit, hollow out: We slotted
the stanchions to accommodate the shelf brackets. 4 assign,
schedule, place, position, pigeon-hole, fit: Can we slot this
interview into the documentary on China?
sloth n. idleness, laziness, indolence, slothfulness, inertia,
apathy, indifference, accidie, torpor, faineance, pococurantism,
torpidity, sluggishness, languor, languidness, lethargy, phlegm,
Rare hebetude: The maharajahs lived a life of sloth and luxury
at the expense of their poverty-stricken subjects.