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 |
|---|---|
| dominant | commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |