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 |
|---|---|
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| 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 |
| reverberate | reflect |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |