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 |
|---|---|
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |