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 |
|---|---|
| indite | make up |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| hirsute | hairy |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |