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 |
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| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| militia | a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency |