GRE Word List
EMOLUMENT
the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites
The meaning of the word emolument is the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites.
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| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| 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 |
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