GRE Word List
PALTRY
inferior
The meaning of the word paltry is inferior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| savant | a person of learning |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |