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 |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep gulf or great space |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |