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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| 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 |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |