GRE Word List
DESTITUTE
lacking something needed or desirable
The meaning of the word destitute is lacking something needed or desirable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| indecisive | marked by or prone to indecision : irresolute |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |