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 |
|---|---|
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| violate | break |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| menial | a person doing menial work |