GRE Word List
BEREAVED
suffering the death of a loved one
The meaning of the word bereaved is suffering the death of a loved one.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| ravage | an act or practice of ravaging |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |