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 |
|---|---|
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
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| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| opus | work |