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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| quisling | traitor |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |