GRE Word List
BENEFICENT
doing or producing good
The meaning of the word beneficent is doing or producing good.
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| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
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| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
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| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
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| macerate | to cause to waste away by or as if by excessive fasting |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
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