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 |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| precipitate | to throw violently : hurl |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |