GRE Word List

NEPOTISM

favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship

The meaning of the word nepotism is favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship.

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WordMeaning
elopeto run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
expropriateto deprive of possession or proprietary rights
apothegma short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism
permissivegranted on sufferance : tolerated
strutto become turgid : swell
addlerotten
putativecommonly accepted or supposed
meagerhaving little flesh : thin
panaceaa remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all