GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| demented | mad |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |