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 |
|---|---|
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| shack | hut |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |