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 |
|---|---|
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |