GRE Word List
LUCRE
monetary gain : profit
The meaning of the word lucre is monetary gain : profit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| grotto | cave |