GRE Word List
BENEFICIARY
a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something
The meaning of the word beneficiary is a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| impinge | encroach |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |