GRE Word List
EXTANT
currently or actually existing
The meaning of the word extant is currently or actually existing.
Random words
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medley | a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces |
tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
wither | to become dry and sapless |
heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |