GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| reek | smoke |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |