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 |
|---|---|
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| scintilla | spark |
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| sophist | philosopher |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |