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 |
|---|---|
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |