GRE Word List
DEFALCATE
deduct
The meaning of the word defalcate is deduct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |