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 |
|---|---|
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| dispirited | to deprive of morale or enthusiasm |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| congruent | congruous |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |