GRE Word List
BENEFICENT
doing or producing good
The meaning of the word beneficent is doing or producing good.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sophist | philosopher |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
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| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |