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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gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
wrathstrong vengeful anger or indignation
protagonistthe principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story)
patriarchone of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people
centaurany of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly
abjectsunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe
witlessdestitute of wit or understanding : foolish
doteto exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage
earthlycharacteristic of or belonging to this earth
thrashto beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog