GRE Word List
FORLORN
bereft
The meaning of the word forlorn is bereft.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
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| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
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| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |