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 |
|---|---|
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| condole | grieve |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| onus | burden |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| residual | remainder |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |