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meager

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore M words

lacking in quantity or quality; scanty

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Meager in a sentence

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They survived the winter on a meager store of grain.

Synonyms
scantysparsepaltryskimpy
Antonyms
abundantampleplentiful

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Verbal · Text Completion

The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.

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Questions about “meager”

Meager (adjective) means lacking in quantity or quality; scanty
Here is meager used in an example sentence: "They survived the winter on a meager store of grain."
Common synonyms for meager include scanty, sparse, paltry, skimpy.
Antonyms of meager include abundant, ample, plentiful.
Meager is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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