GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |