GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
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rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
poise | balance |
elusive | tending to elude: such as |
meticulous | marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |