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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| Word | Meaning |
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| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| fervid | very hot : burning |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |