GRE Word List
BENEFICIAL
producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit
The meaning of the word beneficial is producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| doddering | feeble |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |