GRE Word List
EXTRINSIC
not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous
The meaning of the word extrinsic is not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
