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 |
|---|---|
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |