GRE Word List
CONVENTION
agreement
The meaning of the word convention is agreement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| scintilla | spark |
| colloquy | conversation |
| equivocal | subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| bauble | trinket |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
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