GRE Word List
APPURTENANCES
accessory objects
The meaning of the word appurtenances is accessory objects.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| ensconce | shelter |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |