GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benison | blessing |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |