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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |