GRE Word List
DESTITUTE
lacking something needed or desirable
The meaning of the word destitute is lacking something needed or desirable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| lampoon | satire |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| earthy | of, relating to, or consisting of earth |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |