GRE Word List
DERELICT
abandoned especially by the owner or occupant
The meaning of the word derelict is abandoned especially by the owner or occupant.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |