GRE Word List
DEFRAY
provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay
The meaning of the word defray is provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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calamity | disaster; misery |
cohesion | tendency to keep together |
philistine | narrow-minded person, uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain; uncultured person who is indifferent to artistic and cultural values; member of an ancient people in Palestine; OP. aesthete |
pestilential | causing plague; tending to cause death; baneful; N. pestilence: fatal epidemic disease (esp. bubonic plague) |
anomalous | abnormal; irregular |
voodoo | religion practiced chiefly in Haiti |
forebears | ancestors |
derelict | negligent; (of someone) neglectful of duty; (of something) deserted by an owner; abandoned; N: abandoned property; homeless or vagrant person |
consonant | harmonious; in agreement; N. |
urgent | compelling immediate action; pressing; persistent; importunate; Ex. urgent in his demands |