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 |
|---|---|
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
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