GRE Word List
BENEFACTOR
someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit
The meaning of the word benefactor is someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| unsavory | insipid |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| bacchanal | orgy |