GRE Word List
COMMONPLACE
commonly found or seen : ordinary
The meaning of the word commonplace is commonly found or seen : ordinary.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |