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 |
|---|---|
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| fester | to generate pus |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |