GRE Word List
LUCRE
monetary gain : profit
The meaning of the word lucre is monetary gain : profit.
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|---|---|
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| brawny | muscular |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |