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 |
|---|---|
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |