GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| unintimidating | not causing a feeling of fear or timidity : not intimidating |