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 |
|---|---|
| humdrum | monotonous |
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| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
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| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |