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 |
|---|---|
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| nourishment | food |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |