GRE Word List
SKINFLINT
a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser
The meaning of the word skinflint is a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| recourse | a turning to someone or something for help or protection |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |