GRE Word List
EXTANT
currently or actually existing
The meaning of the word extant is currently or actually existing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |