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.

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hindmostfarthest to the rear : last
gyroscopea 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
genericrelating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general
mentora friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus
militateto have weight or effect
paeana joyous song or hymn of praise, tribute, thanksgiving, or triumph
errantbehaving wrongly
symbiosisthe living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism)
explicateto give a detailed explanation of
frigidintensely cold