GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |