GRE Word List
DEVIATE
to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic
The meaning of the word deviate is to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| paradigm | example |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| freebooter | pirate |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |