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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fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |