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 |
|---|---|
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |