GRE Word List
AMENITIES
something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment
The meaning of the word amenities is something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| broach | brooch |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |