GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| rift | fissure |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |