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 |
|---|---|
| momentum | a property (see property |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| precipitant | precipitate |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |