GRE Word List
ADVENTITIOUS
coming from another source and not inherent or innate
The meaning of the word adventitious is coming from another source and not inherent or innate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| engender | beget |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| historic | historical |
| deify | to make a god of |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| reckon | count |