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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| expropriate | to deprive of possession or proprietary rights |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| addle | rotten |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |