GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
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|---|---|
| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| confidant | one to whom secrets are entrusted |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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