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
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antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |