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 |
|---|---|
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |