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 |
|---|---|
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| dilute | attenuate |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| brink | edge |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| minatory | having a menacing quality |