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 |
|---|---|
| shambles | a meat market |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| slur | an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |