GRE Word List
DEFER
put off
The meaning of the word defer is put off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| rarefied | being less dense |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| marrow | bone marrow |