GRE Word List
RELEGATE
to send into exile : banish
The meaning of the word relegate is to send into exile : banish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| cynical | having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as |