GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| convention | agreement |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| delusive | likely to delude |