GRE Word List
COMMONPLACE
commonly found or seen : ordinary
The meaning of the word commonplace is commonly found or seen : ordinary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| broach | brooch |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |