GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| latch | to lay hold with or as if with the hands or arms |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |