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 |
|---|---|
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| wizardry | the art or practices of a wizard : sorcery |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| culvert | a transverse drain |