GRE Word List
DEARTH
scarcity that makes dear
The meaning of the word dearth is scarcity that makes dear.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| cardinal | a high ecclesiastical official of the Roman Catholic Church who ranks next below the pope and is appointed by him to assist him as a member of the college of cardinals (see college |