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 |
|---|---|
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| florescence | a state or period of flourishing |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| dilute | attenuate |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
