GRE Word List
SUPERIMPOSE
to place or lay over or above something
The meaning of the word superimpose is to place or lay over or above something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| iniquitous | characterized by iniquity |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| plait | pleat |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| colossus | a statue of gigantic size and proportions |