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 |
|---|---|
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |