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 |
|---|---|
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| panegyric | a eulogistic oration or writing |
| wry | twist |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| actuary | clerk |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| gale | a strong current of air: |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |