GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| lax | loose |
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| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |