GRE Word List
DEPUTIZE
to appoint as deputy
The meaning of the word deputize is to appoint as deputy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| stringent | tight |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| plait | pleat |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |