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 |
|---|---|
| mischance | bad luck |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |