GRE Word List
PREEMINENT
having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding
The meaning of the word preeminent is having paramount rank, dignity, or importance : outstanding.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| random | a haphazard course |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| gnome | maxim |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |