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 |
|---|---|
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |