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 |
|---|---|
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| peerless | matchless |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |