GRE Word List
DEPUTIZE
to appoint as deputy
The meaning of the word deputize is to appoint as deputy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| sentinel | sentry |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| 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 |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| galvanic | of, relating to, or producing a direct current of electricity |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |