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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WordMeaning
vigilantea member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
imbueendow
laymana person who is not a member of the clergy
desolatedevoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted
attenuateto lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken
metaphora figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)
trimto remove by or as if by cutting
subjectiveof, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as
incidentan occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening
procrastinateto put off intentionally and habitually