GRE Word List
LUCRE
monetary gain : profit
The meaning of the word lucre is monetary gain : profit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| forebears | ancestor |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
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| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |