GRE Word List
IMPOVERISH
to make poor
The meaning of the word impoverish is to make poor.
Random words
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|---|---|
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| collage | an artistic composition made of various materials (such as paper, cloth, or wood) glued on a surface |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |