GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| grate | grating |