GRE Word List

ACCRUE

to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim

The meaning of the word accrue is to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim.

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WordMeaning
archaichaving the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses
moltenfused or liquefied by heat : melted
meteoricof or relating to a meteor
denouementthe final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
peregrinationto travel especially on foot : walk
haranguea speech addressed to a public assembly
askewout of line : at an angle
asymmetrichaving two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical
prologuethe preface or introduction to a literary work
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language