GRE Word List
BENEFICENT
doing or producing good
The meaning of the word beneficent is doing or producing good.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| skimp | skimpy |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |