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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| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
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| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
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| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
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