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Merit :: Merit (n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment..

Retribution :: Retribution (n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong..

Better :: Better (n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural..

Meritory :: Meritory (a.) Meritorious.

Nepotism :: Nepotism (n.) Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim..

Meritable :: Meritable (a.) Deserving of reward.

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) What may be got without skill or merit.

Meritmonger :: Meritmonger (n.) One who depends on merit for salvation.

Meriting :: Meriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meri.

Merit :: Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

Protomerite :: Protomerite (n.) The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.

Emeritus :: Emeritus (n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

Immerit :: Immerit (n.) Want of worth; demerit.

Superior :: Superior (n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English..

Intrinsic :: Intrinsic (a.) Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person..

Demerit :: Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.

Self-important :: Self-important (a.) Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.

Emeritus :: Emeritus (a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church..

Modesty :: Modesty (n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit..

Detur :: Detur (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.

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