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 |
|---|---|
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |