GRE Word List
MERCENARY
one that serves merely for wages
The meaning of the word mercenary is one that serves merely for wages.
Random words
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diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |