GRE Word List
APPARITION
an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon
The meaning of the word apparition is an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| facade | the front of a building |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |