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 |
|---|---|
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| clime | climate |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| pastoral | of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen |