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 |
|---|---|
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |