GRE Word List
PALTRY
inferior
The meaning of the word paltry is inferior.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| whimsy | whim |
| boor | peasant |
| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |