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 |
|---|---|
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| chary | discreetly cautious: such as |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| comestible | edible |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |