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 |
|---|---|
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| sentinel | sentry |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |