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 |
|---|---|
| auroral | dawn |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| osseous | bony |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| eclectic | composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| condign | deserved |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |