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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| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |