GRE Word List
SUPERNUMERARY
exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number
The meaning of the word supernumerary is exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| auroral | dawn |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| mischance | bad luck |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |