GRE Word List
CAREER
a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
The meaning of the word career is a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compulsory | mandatory |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| whittle | a large knife |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |