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 |
|---|---|
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| overweening | arrogant |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |