GRE Word List
DESOLATE
devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted
The meaning of the word desolate is devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted.
Random words
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| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| drab | slattern |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |