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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| pudding | blood sausage |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |