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 |
|---|---|
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |