GRE Word List
DEFAULT
failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect
The meaning of the word default is failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |
| 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 |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |