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 |
|---|---|
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |