GRE Word List
DERELICTION
an intentional abandonment
The meaning of the word dereliction is an intentional abandonment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| din | a loud continued noise |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| canter | one who uses cant: such as |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |