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.
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| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
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| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |