GRE Word List
APPURTENANCES
accessory objects
The meaning of the word appurtenances is accessory objects.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |