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 |
|---|---|
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| fester | to generate pus |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| congenial | pleasant |