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 |
|---|---|
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |