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 |
|---|---|
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| championship | designation as champion |
| enhance | heighten |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |