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 |
|---|---|
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |