GRE Word List
CONVENTIONAL
formed by agreement or compact
The meaning of the word conventional is formed by agreement or compact.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| aria | air |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| retrench | cut down |