GRE Word List
DERELICTION
an intentional abandonment
The meaning of the word dereliction is an intentional abandonment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
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| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |