GRE Word List
PREPONDERANCE
a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength
The meaning of the word preponderance is a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength.
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caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
scourge | whip |
glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |
husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
hortatory | hortative |