GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
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vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
drip | to let fall in drops |
degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
multilingual | of, having, or expressed in several languages |
gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
chore | the regular or daily light work of a household or farm |
ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
desiccate | to dry up |