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 |
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eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
exquisite | marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution |
truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
rapt | lifted up and carried away |
list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |
chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |