GRE Word List
FORLORN
bereft
The meaning of the word forlorn is bereft.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| cryptic | secret |