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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |