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 |
|---|---|
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| hubbub | noise |