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 |
|---|---|
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |