GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |