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 |
|---|---|
| score | twenty |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |