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 |
|---|---|
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| environ | encircle |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |