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 |
|---|---|
| stout | strong of character: such as |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| slag | the dross or scoria of a metal |