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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willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed
painstakingtaking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort
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paraphernaliathe 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
resentmenta feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury
impedeto interfere with or slow the progress of
repulsionthe action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed
sunderto break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
resurrectto raise from the dead
crypticsecret