GRE Word List
PRETERNATURAL
existing outside of nature
The meaning of the word preternatural is existing outside of nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| teetotalism | the principle or practice of complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |