GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| actuary | clerk |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |