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 |
|---|---|
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| 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 |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| raiment | clothing |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |