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 |
|---|---|
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |