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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |