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 |
|---|---|
| beneficial | producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| cascade | a steep usually small fall of water |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |