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 |
|---|---|
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| etymology | the 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 |