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 |
|---|---|
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| brevity | shortness of duration |