GRE Word List
DEFROCK
to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office
The meaning of the word defrock is to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |