GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| succor | relief |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |