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 |
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skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
debonair | suave |
prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |