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 |
|---|---|
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| preeminent | having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |