GRE Word List
DERELICTION
an intentional abandonment
The meaning of the word dereliction is an intentional abandonment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| demerit | offense |
| duration | continuance in time |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| ensconce | shelter |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |