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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| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| acetic | vinegary |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| appease | pacify |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
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