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 |
|---|---|
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
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| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
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| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
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| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
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