GRE Word List

PAUCITY

smallness of number : fewness

The meaning of the word paucity is smallness of number : fewness.

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WordMeaning
commodiouscomfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy
fledglinga young bird just fledged (see fledge
incommodiousnot commodious : inconvenient
augmentto make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
credulityreadiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
effectuateto cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect
realmkingdom
clientelea body of clients
polemican aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin