GRE Word List
PRODIGIOUS
causing amazement or wonder
The meaning of the word prodigious is causing amazement or wonder.
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| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| portly | dignified |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |