GRE Word List
PITTANCE
a small portion, amount, or allowance
The meaning of the word pittance is a small portion, amount, or allowance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
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| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |