GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| license | permission to act |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |