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 |
|---|---|
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |