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 |
|---|---|
| clip | encompass |
| grudging | unwilling |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |