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 |
|---|---|
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| fulcrum | prop |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |