GRE Word List
SUBSIDY
a grant or gift of money: such as
The meaning of the word subsidy is a grant or gift of money: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |