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 |
|---|---|
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| facade | the front of a building |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |