GRE Word List
APPELLATION
an identifying name or title : designation
The meaning of the word appellation is an identifying name or title : designation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| pomposity | pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| antecede | precede |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |