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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flushto fly away suddenly
postulatedemand
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carata unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy
patriarchone of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people
culinaryof or relating to the kitchen or cookery
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
cosmicof or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone
masona skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick)