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

WordMeaning
alliterationthe repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
maledictioncurse
corrugatedhaving corrugations
tautologicalinvolving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant
monographa learned treatise on a small area of learning
ingratean ungrateful person
corporealhaving, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as
militateto have weight or effect
fraileasily led into evil
irremediablenot remediable