TESTfunda Daily Wordlist 06-May-14
If you're having trouble viewing this email, see today's Wordlist on the Web. 06-May-14 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists destitute [ DES-ti-toot ] [ adjective, transitive verb ] MEANING : 1. (adj.) having no means of subsistence or lacking food, shelter and clothing 2. (adj.) deprived of 3. (adj.) impoverished or penniless 4. (tr.v.) to leave destitute USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : The government has set up shelters where volunteers take care of destitute people. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : Two centuries after independence, however, Haiti is the battered pauper of the Americas and unimaginably destitute after the earthquake. Telegraph, Haiti: enslaved by its dark history , By Ian Thomson, 14 Jan 2010 libretto [ li-BRET-oh ...