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 |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |