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 |
|---|---|
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| cryptic | secret |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| slew | a large number |