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 |
|---|---|
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| abrasive | causing damage, wear, or removal of surface material by grinding or rubbing : tending to abrade |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| license | permission to act |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |