GRE Word List
PALTRY
inferior
The meaning of the word paltry is inferior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |