Vocab Booster SAT Supplement Vocabulary: Not Enough Words

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  1. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  2. closefisted
    unwilling to part with money
  3. exploit
    use or manipulate to one's advantage
  4. frugal
    avoiding waste
  5. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
  6. ingrate
    a person who shows no thankfulness or appreciation
  7. insatiable
    impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify
  8. mercenary
    a person hired to fight for another country than their own
  9. profit
    the advantageous quality of being beneficial
  10. miser
    a stingy hoarder of money and possessions
  11. opportunistic
    taking advantage of any circumstance of possible benefit
  12. parsimonious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  13. usury
    the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
  14. abnegate
    deny or renounce
  15. abstain
    refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
  16. forgo
    do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  17. waive
    do without or cease to hold or adhere to
  18. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  19. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  20. debt
    the state of owing something, especially money
  21. deficit
    an amount that is less than expected or required
  22. deplete
    use up, as resources or materials
  23. devoid
    completely wanting or lacking
  24. drought
    a shortage of rainfall
  25. fallow
    left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  26. lack
    the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
  27. meager
    deficient in amount or quality or extent
  28. mere
    being nothing more than specified
  29. modicum
    a small or moderate or token amount
  30. parched
    extremely thirsty
  31. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  32. rare
    especially good, remarkable, or superlative
  33. scarce
    deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
  34. scarcity
    a small and inadequate amount
  35. sparse
    not dense or plentiful
  36. grovel
    show submission or fear
  37. importune
    beg persistently and urgently
  38. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  39. pauper
    a person who is very poor
  40. solicit
    request urgently or persistently
  41. fruitless
    unproductive of success
  42. futile
    producing no result or effect
  43. impotent
    (of a male) unable to copulate
  44. debtor
    a person who owes a creditor
  45. depreciate
    decline in value
  46. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  47. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  48. impoverished
    poor enough to need help from others
  49. insolvent
    unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
  50. penury
    a state of extreme poverty or destitution
  51. squalor
    sordid dirtiness
  52. abbreviate
    shorten
  53. abridge
    lessen, diminish, or curtail
  54. dwarf
    a person who is markedly small
  55. infinitesimal
    immeasurably small
  56. lilliputian
    very small
  57. microscopic
    so small as to be invisible without a magnifying device
  58. minuscule
    very small
  59. minute
    a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
  60. paltry
    contemptibly small in amount or size
  61. smidgen
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
  62. svelte
    being of delicate or slender build
  63. venial
    warranting only temporal punishment
Created on Fri Jan 31 17:17:44 EST 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:03:13 EDT 2020)

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