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 |
|---|---|
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |