GRE Word List
TRANSCENDENT
exceeding usual limits : surpassing
The meaning of the word transcendent is exceeding usual limits : surpassing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |