GRE Word List
DEFECTION
conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion
The meaning of the word defection is conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |