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 |
|---|---|
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| pan | a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking) |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |