GRE Word List
DEFER
put off
The meaning of the word defer is put off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |