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.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
malediction | curse |
corrugated | having corrugations |
tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
ingrate | an ungrateful person |
corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
militate | to have weight or effect |
frail | easily led into evil |
irremediable | not remediable |