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 |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| concentric | having a common center |
| preeminent | having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding |
| tread | to step or walk on or over |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |