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 |
|---|---|
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| impeach | to charge with a crime or misdemeanor |