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 |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |