GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |