GRE Word List
TRANSCENDENT
exceeding usual limits : surpassing
The meaning of the word transcendent is exceeding usual limits : surpassing.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
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| figure | a number symbol : numeral |