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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| padre | a Christian clergyman |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |