GRE Word List
FORLORN
bereft
The meaning of the word forlorn is bereft.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |