GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| opus | work |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| opulence | wealth |