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 |
|---|---|
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |