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 |
|---|---|
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |