GRE Word List
INDIGENCE
a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
The meaning of the word indigence is a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |