GRE Word List
DEPREDATION
to lay waste : plunder
The meaning of the word depredation is to lay waste : plunder.
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| douse | to plunge into water |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |