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 |
|---|---|
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |