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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inalienableincapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred
recriminationa retaliatory accusation
cumulativeincreasing by successive additions
pretentiouscharacterized by pretension: such as
pinnaclean upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress
propsomething that props or sustains : support
humusa brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic
anthropomorphicdescribed or thought of as having a human form or human attributes
nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
blotchto mark or mar with blotches