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 |
|---|---|
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| benefactor | someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |