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 |
|---|---|
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |