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 |
|---|---|
| provenance | origin |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| 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 |
| amnesia | loss of memory due usually to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness |
| cipher | zero |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| clime | climate |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |