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 |
|---|---|
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| infringe | to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |