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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edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
unseemly | not seemly: such as |
seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
disport | sport |
disputatious | inclined to dispute |
substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |