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 |
|---|---|
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |