GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |