GRE Word List
DEFECT
an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming
The meaning of the word defect is an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |