GRE Word List
DERELICTION
an intentional abandonment
The meaning of the word dereliction is an intentional abandonment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| influx | a coming in |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |