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 |
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| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| ram | a male sheep |
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |