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 |
|---|---|
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |