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 |
|---|---|
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| amity | friendship |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |