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 |
|---|---|
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| hirsute | hairy |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| courier | messenger |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |