GRE Word List
BENEFIT
something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage
The meaning of the word benefit is something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |