GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
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nourishment | food |
vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |