GRE Word List
GRATUITY
something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service
The meaning of the word gratuity is something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service.
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odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
sear | being dried and withered |
adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
subjugate | to bring under control and governance as a subject : conquer |