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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| ration | a food allowance for one day |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |