GRE Word List
DEFT
characterized by facility and skill
The meaning of the word deft is characterized by facility and skill.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| application | an act of applying: |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |