GRE Word List
DESPOIL
to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage
The meaning of the word despoil is to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravenous | rapacious |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| prong | fork |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |