GRE Word List
YEN
a strong desire or propensity
The meaning of the word yen is a strong desire or propensity.
Random words
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enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
scrappy | consisting of scraps |
hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
dinghy | a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat |
remunerative | serving to remunerate |
causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |