GRE Word List
FORLORN
bereft
The meaning of the word forlorn is bereft.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| growl | rumble |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |