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 |
|---|---|
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| undulating | having a wavy surface, edge, or markings |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |