GRE Word List
BOON
a timely benefit : blessing
The meaning of the word boon is a timely benefit : blessing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| delude | to mislead the mind or judgment of : deceive |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| delve | excavate |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |