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.
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| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
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| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |