GRE Word List
SEQUESTER
to set apart : segregate
The meaning of the word sequester is to set apart : segregate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |