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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| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
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| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
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| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
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| hirsute | hairy |
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| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |