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 |
|---|---|
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| oatmeal | meal made from oats |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |