GRE Word List
DISTANT
separated in space : away
The meaning of the word distant is separated in space : away.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |