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 |
|---|---|
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| fulcrum | prop |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |