GRE Word List
CONVENTIONAL
formed by agreement or compact
The meaning of the word conventional is formed by agreement or compact.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| cryptic | secret |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |