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 |
|---|---|
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| flourish | to grow luxuriantly : thrive |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| dart | a light spear |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |