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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| diva | prima donna |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
