GRE Word List
DEPUTIZE
to appoint as deputy
The meaning of the word deputize is to appoint as deputy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| hubbub | noise |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |