GRE Word List
DEFALCATE
deduct
The meaning of the word defalcate is deduct.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| adhere | to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |