GRE Word List
HIRELING
a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives
The meaning of the word hireling is a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |