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 |
|---|---|
| legato | in a manner that is smooth and connected (as between successive tones) |
| onus | burden |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |