Vocabulary Word
Word: bereaved
Definition: deprived of (someone beloved through death)
Definition: deprived of (someone beloved through death)
Sentences Containing 'bereaved'
Fresh flowers, in vases of water, are to be seen at the portals of many of the vaults: placed there by the pious hands of bereaved parents and children, husbands and wives, and renewed daily.
To pass by my other afflictions, I have lost five children under the most pitiful conditions possible: for the five I lost one by one when each was my only child, suffering these blows of bereavement in such a manner that each child was born to one already bereaved.
It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.
More Vocab Words
::: steadfast - steadily loyal; unswerving; steady::: desolate - make desolate; forsake; abandon and desert
::: defray - provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay
::: hypocritical - pretending to be virtuous; deceiving; N. hypocrisy: profession of beliefs one does not possess; CF. hypocrite
::: oversee - watch over and direct; supervise; N. oversight: unintentional failure to notice or do something; supervision
::: waver - move or swing back and forth; be uncertain or unsteady in decision or movement; Ex. wavering between accepting and refusing
::: antediluvian - antiquated; extremely ancient
::: rampant - growing or spreading uncontrollably; growing in profusion; unrestrained; Ex. rampant lawlessness/weed
::: retrospective - looking back on the past; N. retrospection; V. retrospect
::: totter - shake or move unsteadily; sway as if about to fall
