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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| demure | reserved |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |