GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |