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 |
|---|---|
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| boor | peasant |