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 |
|---|---|
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| forlorn | bereft |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |