GRE Word List
BEREAVEMENT
the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone
The meaning of the word bereavement is the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| reputed | having a good repute : reputable |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |