GRE Word List
APPELLATION
an identifying name or title : designation
The meaning of the word appellation is an identifying name or title : designation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |