GRE Word List
FORLORN
bereft
The meaning of the word forlorn is bereft.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| clime | climate |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| 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 |