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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |