GRE Word List
FORLORN
bereft
The meaning of the word forlorn is bereft.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| hubbub | noise |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |