GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| influx | a coming in |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |