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.
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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 |