GRE Word List
EARN
to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered
The meaning of the word earn is to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |