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 |
|---|---|
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| entity | being |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |