GRE Word List
SURPASS
to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed
The meaning of the word surpass is to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |