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 |
|---|---|
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |