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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WordMeaning
manipulateto treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner
besmirchto cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully
rotunditymarked by roundness : rounded
exactingtryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands
assailto attack violently : assault
execrabledeserving to be execrated : detestable
inebriateone who is drunk
quashto suppress or extinguish summarily and completely
scapegoata goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur
sleeperone that sleeps