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 |
|---|---|
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| viand | an item of food |
| disgruntle | to make ill-humored or discontented |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |