GRE Word List
SURMOUNT
to prevail over : overcome
The meaning of the word surmount is to prevail over : overcome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| demise | death |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| effete | no longer fertile |