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 |
|---|---|
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |