GRE Word List
DEARTH
scarcity that makes dear
The meaning of the word dearth is scarcity that makes dear.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |