GRE Word List
MERIT
a praiseworthy quality : virtue
The meaning of the word merit is a praiseworthy quality : virtue.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| charlatan | quack |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |