GRE Word List
DEPUTIZE
to appoint as deputy
The meaning of the word deputize is to appoint as deputy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |