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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |