GRE Word List
SUPERFLUOUS
exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra
The meaning of the word superfluous is exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| querulous | habitually complaining |