GRE Word List
SUPERSEDE
to cause to be set aside
The meaning of the word supersede is to cause to be set aside.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
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| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
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