GRE Word List
DEVOID
being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
The meaning of the word devoid is being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |