GRE Word List
DEFERENCE
respect and esteem due a superior or an elder
The meaning of the word deference is respect and esteem due a superior or an elder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| fell | skin |
| thespian | actor |