GRE Word List
SCANTY
limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent
The meaning of the word scanty is limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| retribution | recompense |
| actuary | clerk |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| microcosm | a little world |
| boor | peasant |