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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| 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 |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |