GRE Word List
ADJUNCT
something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
The meaning of the word adjunct is something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| convention | agreement |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |