GRE Word List
BEREFT
deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something
The meaning of the word bereft is deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| delve | excavate |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| laud | praise |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |