GRE Word List
DEARTH
scarcity that makes dear
The meaning of the word dearth is scarcity that makes dear.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| distend | extend |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |