GRE Word List
DERELICTION
an intentional abandonment
The meaning of the word dereliction is an intentional abandonment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| paradigm | example |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| facade | the front of a building |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| broach | brooch |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |