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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| requite | to make return for : repay |