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 |
|---|---|
| comestible | edible |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |