GRE Word List
DEFLECT
to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction
The meaning of the word deflect is to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| drivel | nonsense |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |