GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| 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 |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |