GRE Word List

SURMOUNT

to prevail over : overcome

The meaning of the word surmount is to prevail over : overcome.

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inverseopposite in order, nature, or effect
sunderto break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
ironicrelating to, containing, or constituting irony
iniquitouscharacterized by iniquity
skimpskimpy
homogeneousof the same or a similar kind or nature
cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
embossto raise the surface of into bosses
temperamentcharacteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response
isotopeany of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties