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 |
|---|---|
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| terrestrial | of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |