GRE Word List
EMINENT
exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent
The meaning of the word eminent is exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| exigency | that which is required in a particular situation |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| reverie | daydream |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |