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 |
|---|---|
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| spare | not being used |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |