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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |