GRE Word List
SURMOUNT
to prevail over : overcome
The meaning of the word surmount is to prevail over : overcome.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| calligraphy | artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering |