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 |
|---|---|
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| dour | stern |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |