GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |