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 |
|---|---|
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| faculty | ability |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |