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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
