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 |
|---|---|
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| ventriloquist | one who uses or is skilled in ventriloquism |
| prodigy | a highly talented child or youth |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| homily | a usually short sermon |