GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |
mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
querulous | habitually complaining |
plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
jocose | given to joking : merry |
debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
discompose | to destroy the composure of |