GRE Word List
PROMINENT
standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant
The meaning of the word prominent is standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |