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 |
|---|---|
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |