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 |
|---|---|
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| provident | frugal |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| nourish | nurture |
| gist | essence; main point; substance |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |