GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| dire | exciting horror |
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| amok | an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects usually by a single individual following a period of brooding that has traditionally been regarded as occurring especially in Malaysian culture but is now increasingly viewed as psychopathological behavior occurring worldwide in numerous countries and cultures |