GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |