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 |
|---|---|
| cant | the expression or repetition of conventional or trite opinions or sentiments |
| score | twenty |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| kismet | fate |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |