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 |
|---|---|
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| allocate | to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |