GRE Word List
EXTRANEOUS
existing on or coming from the outside
The meaning of the word extraneous is existing on or coming from the outside.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| dull | tedious |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |