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 |
|---|---|
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| conflagration | fire |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| propagate | to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |