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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| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
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| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
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| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
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| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| cryptic | secret |