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 |
|---|---|
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| prank | trick |
| sift | to put through a sieve |