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 |
|---|---|
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| spare | not being used |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| conflagration | fire |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |