GRE Word List
INDIGENT
suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished
The meaning of the word indigent is suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| disfigure | to impair (as in beauty) by deep and persistent injuries |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| scotch | scottish |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |