Vocab 2

Deprive

to deprive (third-person singular simple present deprives, present participle depriving, simple past and past participle deprived)

1. To take something away (and keep it away); deny someone of something.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 260a.

     If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.

Amiss

amiss (comparative more amiss, superlative most amiss)

1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice. Used only in the predicate of a sentence.

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