GRE Word List
BENEFICENT
doing or producing good
The meaning of the word beneficent is doing or producing good.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| contrite | feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |