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 |
|---|---|
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| application | an act of applying: |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |