GRE Word List
DEFER
put off
The meaning of the word defer is put off.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |