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 |
|---|---|
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| kismet | fate |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |