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 |
|---|---|
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |