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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scheme | a plan or program of action |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |