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 |
|---|---|
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| resign | relegate |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |