GRE Word List
TRANSCENDENT
exceeding usual limits : surpassing
The meaning of the word transcendent is exceeding usual limits : surpassing.
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| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| swipe | a strong sweeping blow |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |