bereft
source sentence: Morrison's mediations between these two theoretical and political camps - between postmodernism and African American social protest - enable her to draw the best from both and make us question the more extremist voices asserting that our postmodern world is bereft of history.
context clues: inference clues, (syn.) lacking, left out, (ant.) abundant in, full of, Being excluded from history is an example of being bereft.
definition: deprive
original sentence: Sally was very depressed because she was bereft of the party everyone else was being invited to.
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