GRE Word List
EMBEZZLEMENT
to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
The meaning of the word embezzlement is to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |