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 |
|---|---|
| enhance | heighten |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| parlance | speech |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| provident | frugal |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |