GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| fester | to generate pus |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| replica | an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |