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 |
|---|---|
| heed | to pay attention |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| modish | fashionable |