GRE Word List
PITTANCE
a small portion, amount, or allowance
The meaning of the word pittance is a small portion, amount, or allowance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| paramour | lover |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |