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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| benison | blessing |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| conspire | plot |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |