GRE Word List
DEFER
put off
The meaning of the word defer is put off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| dint | force |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| victuals | food usable by people |