GRE Word List
SKIMP
skimpy
The meaning of the word skimp is skimpy.
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ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
muse | to become absorbed in thought |
reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |