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 |
|---|---|
| impoverish | to make poor |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |