GRE Word List
SUPERSEDE
to cause to be set aside
The meaning of the word supersede is to cause to be set aside.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |