GRE Word List
DOMINANT
commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others
The meaning of the word dominant is commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
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