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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| hazard | a source of danger |