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 |
|---|---|
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |