GRE Word List
SUPERANNUATED
outmoded
The meaning of the word superannuated is outmoded.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| misadventure | misfortune |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| kaleidoscope | an instrument containing loose bits of colored material (such as glass or plastic) between two flat plates and two plane mirrors so placed that changes of position of the bits of material are reflected in an endless variety of patterns |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |