GRE Word List
ALMS
something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor
The meaning of the word alms is something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
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| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |