GRE Word List
PENURY
a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money)
The meaning of the word penury is a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |