GRE Word List
SURMOUNT
to prevail over : overcome
The meaning of the word surmount is to prevail over : overcome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| comestible | edible |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |