GRE Word List
PROXY
the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another
The meaning of the word proxy is the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| brocade | a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |