GRE Word List
DEFER
put off
The meaning of the word defer is put off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| heterogeneous | consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents : mixed |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| quarry | game |