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 |
|---|---|
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| delusion | something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |