GRE Word List
DEPLORE
to feel or express grief for
The meaning of the word deplore is to feel or express grief for.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| devious | wandering |
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |