GRE Word List
SUPEREROGATORY
observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required
The meaning of the word supererogatory is observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| motley | variegated in color |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |