GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |