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 |
|---|---|
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| random | a haphazard course |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |