GRE Word List
DEFALCATE
deduct
The meaning of the word defalcate is deduct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
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| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
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