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 |
|---|---|
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |