GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| charlatan | quack |
| puerile | juvenile |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |