GRE Word List
ACCRETION
the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as
The meaning of the word accretion is the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| osseous | bony |