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 |
|---|---|
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| spare | not being used |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |