GRE Word List
EXORBITANT
not coming within the scope of the law
The meaning of the word exorbitant is not coming within the scope of the law.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| dull | tedious |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |