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 |
|---|---|
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |