GRE Word List
MISERLY
of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser
The meaning of the word miserly is of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser.
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| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
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| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| stock | a store or supply accumulated or available |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |