GRE Word List
ULTERIOR
going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper
The meaning of the word ulterior is going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| passe | past one's prime |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |