GRE Word List
BEHOLDEN
being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted
The meaning of the word beholden is being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| benison | blessing |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |