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 |
|---|---|
| hap | happening |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |