GRE Word List
FACTITIOUS
produced by humans rather than by natural forces
The meaning of the word factitious is produced by humans rather than by natural forces.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| arid | excessively dry |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |