GRE Word List
BENEFICENT
doing or producing good
The meaning of the word beneficent is doing or producing good.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| exhume | disinter |
| mischance | bad luck |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |