GRE Word List
PERQUISITE
a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages
The meaning of the word perquisite is a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| dingy | dirty |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |