GRE Word List
CONSIGN
to give over to another's care
The meaning of the word consign is to give over to another's care.
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temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
circlet | a little circle |
efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
defer | put off |
artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
coin | corner |
etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |