GRE Word List
PRIVATION
an act or instance of depriving : deprivation
The meaning of the word privation is an act or instance of depriving : deprivation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |