GRE Word List

STIPEND

a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses

The meaning of the word stipend is a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses.

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sunderto break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
alliterationthe repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
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recountto relate in detail : narrate
skeptican adherent or advocate of skepticism
strangleto choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle
exonerateto relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
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