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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| recast | to cast again |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| heed | to pay attention |
| osseous | bony |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |