GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| defalcate | deduct |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| haggard | not tamed |
| touching | capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion |