GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| realm | kingdom |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| cue | the letter q |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |