GRE Word List
DEVOLVE
to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another
The meaning of the word devolve is to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |