GRE Word List
PARSIMONY
the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift
The meaning of the word parsimony is the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |