GRE Word List
PASSE
past one's prime
The meaning of the word passe is past one's prime.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |