GRE Word List
BENEFICENT
doing or producing good
The meaning of the word beneficent is doing or producing good.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |