GRE Word List
SERVITUDE
a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life
The meaning of the word servitude is a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| expatriate | banish |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |