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 |
|---|---|
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| query | question |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |