GRE Word List
TIGHTWAD
a close or miserly person
The meaning of the word tightwad is a close or miserly person.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| euphony | pleasing or sweet sound |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |