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 |
|---|---|
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| genesis | the origin or coming into being of something |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |
| overt | open to view : manifest |