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 |
|---|---|
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| giddy | dizzy |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |