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 |
|---|---|
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| expeditious | marked by or acting with prompt efficiency |
| alimony | an allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |