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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| denomination | an act of denominating |
| gyroscope | a 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 |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| pummel | pound |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |