GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| puerile | juvenile |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |