GRE Word List
SUPERFICIAL
of, relating to, or located near a surface
The meaning of the word superficial is of, relating to, or located near a surface.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| doddering | feeble |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |