GRE Word List
DIVEST
to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title
The meaning of the word divest is to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |