GRE Word List
PAUCITY
smallness of number : fewness
The meaning of the word paucity is smallness of number : fewness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| reverberate | reflect |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |