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 |
|---|---|
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| prank | trick |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| congruent | congruous |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |