GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| tome | book |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| brook | creek |